#seattle art museum

[baebeylik]

The Mi'raj (Muhammad's night journey). Persian, 1550-1580.

Seattle Art Museum.

[gregdotorg]

Richard Serra, Wake, 2004, at dusk at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park

Sleeping Wake [greg.org]

[akayna]

Spontaneous visit to the Seattle Art Museum tonight! Free first Thursdays are rad.

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

"Girls Seen at Volunteer Park," 1940s

[mxmollusca]

@epersonae and I experienced the ephemeral at the Seattle Art Museum today.

"From Dust to Dust"

2026

Artist Unknown

[deephazeintro]

Black Velvet, 1972 by Andrew Wyeth

[arthistoryanimalia]

Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten) Japan, 19th c. Cotton cloth with indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 38 1/2 x 50 in. (97.79 x 127 cm) Seattle Art Museum 2001.414 "The oversized spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo ('Earth Spider'), the Noh drama that tells the story of the warrior Minamoto Yorimitsu fighting off the monstrous earth spider, who is disguised as a monk."

Read more about the history and iconography of this cool coat here:

Object of the Week: Commoner's Firefighting Jacket - SAMBlog

As Halloween approaches and our thoughts turn to the weird and witchy, we wanted to highlight an early-nineteenth-century firefighter’s coat

https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/firefighting-jacket/

[jscolman]

The Seattle Art Museum.

Summer, 2025.